Convicted killer prompts security concern at Limerick murder trial

The President of the High Court is to be contacted following a security incident involving a convicted killer during the Roy Collins murder trial.

A witness, who is a prison inmate, indicated during cross-examination that he had a mobile phone in his pocket, which later turned out to be a TV remote control from Limerick Prison.

Live95fm's Denis Tierney reports from the Special Criminal Court in Dublin...

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Convicted killer Anthony 'Noddy' McCarthy was being questioned about phone calls made by him from Wheatfield Prison on the morning of the murder in April 2009.

When repeatedly asked by Defence Counsel Remy Farrell about the availability of mobile phones in prison

Noddy McCarthy stood up in the box, pointed to his right trouser pocket saying, 'what's that there? a mobile phone'.

Prison Officer Paul Tucker later told the court that Noddy McCarthy had a TV remote control in his pocket, indicating that it looks like he brought it with him from Limerick Prison.

Presiding judge Iseult O'Malley described it as bewildering and unsatisfactory that the item could have brought into the high-security Special Court Court, of all places.

She said she has security concerns about how an inmate could have been allowed to carry it with him adding she is going to contact the President of the High Court as well as Garda and Prison authorities about the incident.

36-year-old Wayne Dundon from Lenihan Avenue and 24-year-old Nathan Killeen of Hyde Road deny murdering Roy Collins on the 9th of April 2009.

The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow when closing statements are expected to begin.